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Re: Nessus - open or closed source?


From: leonardo <billtorvalds1 () yahoo it>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 16:12:59 +0100 (CET)


--- "Serg B." <serg.belokamen () gmail com> ha scritto: 

Hi All, 

I don't recall where I read it, but... Something
about Nessus going into
proprietry market and that future releases of the
scanner will not be
available under GPL licence.

Could someone confirm that or...?

yes.
http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/10/24/1821209&tid=132
http://www.openvas.org

ciao,
leonardo.



        

        
                
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